Alberta

Large shrubs or trees. Leaves decussate, subsessile or petiolate, oblong, obtuse; stipules cup-shaped, broad, aristate, deciduous. Flowers +/- irregular, terminal on lateral branches; inflorescences thyrsic; bracts small to minute. Calyx unequally 5-lobed, hairy without and within, lobes longer than tube, with 3 small lobes ovate-acute, 2 others oblong-obtuse, enlarged and pink or red in fruit; tube shallow. Corolla 5-lobed, pubescent; lobes ovate, subacute; tube long, funnel-shaped, somewhat curved. Stamens 5, arising in upper part of corolla tube; anthers included, sessile, linear, with apical tail and obtuse, sagittate base, hairy on back. Disc annular. Ovary 2-locular, with a solitary pendulous ovule in each locule; style +/- curved, long-exserted, glabrous; stigma lobes 2, minute, filiform to elliptic. Fruit indehiscent, small, oval, crowned with large, spathulate, veined, coloured calyx lobes. x = 9, 11 (1 report, aneuploids, polyploidy).